Ronnie and Janine were always at each others throats especially when Janine ran over Danielle and they way Janine laughed about it months later

actually they weren't and its one of the most puzzling errors in santer's tenure. There wasn't really a followup to danielle's murder or should I say ronnie's grudge against janine was suddenly dropped after like 1 confrontation. View episodes of archie and janine's coupling on youtube and see ronnie's reaction to it, janine was an afterthought to ronnie by then.The only time the 2 characters were at loggerheads was when the writers were trying to shoehorn janine into s/ls or situations to justify charlie's return (ie her claim to be a partner in R&R)

actually they weren't and its one of the most puzzling errors in santer's tenure. There wasn't really a followup to danielle's murder or should I say ronnie's grudge against janine was suddenly dropped after like 1 confrontation. View episodes of archie and janine's coupling on youtube and see ronnie's reaction to it, janine was an afterthought to ronnie by then.The only time the 2 characters were at loggerheads was when the writers were trying to shoehorn janine into s/ls or situations to justify charlie's return (ie her claim to be a partner in R&R)

It does seem to me as if this SL between Janine and Ronnie post Danielle should have bben taken further. Not sure MURDER is the right description, however.

It does seem to me as if this SL between Janine and Ronnie post Danielle should have bben taken further. Not sure MURDER is the right description, however.

Maybe not but considering archie was hell bent on hiding the secret and torturing ronnie it was quite the coincidence that his fiancee conveniently ran the girl over.Why the writers never had ronnie at least throughout such a theory (which isn't implausible) was a mystery

Maybe not but considering archie was hell bent on hiding the secret and torturing ronnie it was quite the coincidence that his fiancee conveniently ran the girl over.Why the writers never had ronnie at least throughout such a theory (which isn't implausible) was a mystery

Was Janine already with Archie when she ran over Danielle? I thought they got together afterwards.

Ronnie had enough battles to cope with I suppose EE scripwriters thought that adding Janine was a step to far...tho obviously her 3rd baby dying and swapping it for her neighbours was deemed fine by the powers that be.

well yes annual leave of course - but in this case it's six months off a time whenever the mood takes her - she'd had six months off and now disappeared again

Hardly.

The producers allowed her 6 months off. She negotiated that and whilst we don’t know contractual details, I doubt she was on full pay during that time. She probably did ‘I’m a Celeb’ for the money to subsidise her loss of income.

Since returning she pretty much appeared in every episode over a two month period, so she probably did more hours in that time that the majority of the cast.

I always get the impression actors work flexi-time and accumulate hours which they can then take off as leave. If the storyline dictates that someone needs to disappear, then leave is given accordingly. I severely doubt this was Charlie’s decision – plus she’s back next week, so it was hardly a big break.

Plus there’s nothing to say that she hasn’t been filming upcoming scenes during the break in screen-time.

The producers allowed her 6 months off. She negotiated that and whilst we don’t know contractual details, I doubt she was on full pay during that time. She probably did ‘I’m a Celeb’ for the money to subsidise her loss of income.

Since returning she pretty much appeared in every episode over a two month period, so she probably did more hours in that time that the majority of the cast.

I always get the impression actors work flexi-time and accumulate hours which they can then take off as leave. If the storyline dictates that someone needs to disappear, then leave is given accordingly. I severely doubt this was Charlie’s decision – plus she’s back next week, so it was hardly a big break.

Plus there’s nothing to say that she hasn’t been filming upcoming scenes during the break in screen-time.

It was Brooks' decision to take another break so she could train for a charity race.

I think most actors/actresses have the right to take time as they say in interviews that EastEnders is hard work except Patsy Palmer who took it too far by having a year off in 2011 then having another break 4 months after she came back from her break